Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard reveals final moments of the Fuhrer and Eva Braun in the bunker

THE last witness to Adolf Hitler’s death has revealed what happened in the Fuhrer’s final moments as well as clues as to his relationship with wife Eva Braun and the truth behind Rudolf Hess’s peace mission to the UK.

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The details of Hitler’s last minutes and other details about his private life have been revealed in Rochus Misch’s, who died in 2013, book, Hitler’s Last Witness, which is available to English readers for the first time and is published by Pen and Sword.

“On 30 April 1945, Rochus Misch was at the switchboard in Hitler’s bunker,” said the book’s commissioning editor, Martin Mace.

“He received the message from General Wilhelm Keitel that he had failed to break the Soviet encirclement of Berlin, and that the end was both close at hand and inevitable.

“Shortly afterwards, Misch heard Hitler talking quietly to Bormann and others. He looked and saw Hitler walk into his study, Eva, now Mrs Hitler, followed him in. He saw Otto Günsche, the Führer’s adjutant, close the door behind the newly married couple.

He did not want his body to be publicly abused as Mussolini’s had been

Rochus Misch in Hitler’s Last Witness

“Güsche told Misch that the ‘boss’ was not to be disturbed. Hitler shook hands with Günsche and told him that all soldiers were released from their oath of loyalty. Hitler had already told his adjutant that he did not want his body to be publicly abused as Mussolini’s had been and that he wanted his corpse to be burned.

“This had already been arranged by Günsche with an SS Reichssicherheitsdienst man who assisted Misch on the switchboard. Everyone in the bunker waited nervously. Then there was some commotion.

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“The study door was opened and Misch looked inside: ‘My glance fell first on Eva. She was seated with her legs drawn up, her head inclined towards Hitler. Her shoes were under the sofa. Near her … the dead Hitler. His eyes were open and staring, his head had fallen forward slightly.’”

After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler’s SS bodyguard. There he served until the war’s end as Hitler’s bodyguard, courier, orderly and finally as Chief of Communications.

From his close contact with the German dictator Misch could observe many things and believed Hitler and Eva Braun were lovers long before it was revealed.

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Eva Braun (1912 - 1945) had started a relationship with Adolf Hitler in 1931 and moved into the Berghof, his residency near Berchtesgaden, in 1936. At the time she still was on the payroll of the Heinrich Hoffmann photo agency, where she had first met Hitler in October 1929.